Word: tokenisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their son would not be allowed to play because he hadn't applied himself in summer school. "His mom was crying, and she came up to me, and I thought she was gonna hit me. But instead she hugged me and said, 'Thank you for caring.'" By the same token, Paterno has kept other athletes on scholarship and told them to forget about football so they could concentrate on their studies...
Although Pan and a student coordinator of Housing and Neighborhood Development (HAND), a public service program in the houses which is administered by Epstein, are on the search committee, Pan says it would be easy for the students to become "token...
...think the students have been working very,very hard to create the dialogue in good faith,"Pan said. "I think we're working very hard tocreate a productive dialogue or conversation thatis serious, where there is a real exchange ofideas and not token gestures of input...
...filled by the current Director of PBH, Greg Johnson '72. Recommendations for the search committee solicited from students and Association Committee (advisory board) members were also ignored. Opinions of inidivudals with extensive national experience in human service work and administrative experience at Harvard were rejected. This seeking of only token input is insulting. It does not bode well for the successful conclusion of the process...
Gardner receives a minimal stipend from the athletic department, and all three are paid a little bit more by the Radcliffe women's club. But their salaries are at most token, and their dedication to the Radcliffe team is unquestionable...